Due December 15th, 2010 - Submit  your short  to win your place aboard POLYGLOT - on the way to Turku, an itinerant filmmaking event travelling across the archipelago of Turku, Finland

We are accepting entries are in two categories:

Video Portraits (Documentaries on My multilingualism) - Do you speak different languages on a regular basis? Describe the linguistic environment you live in, and how it affects you personally.

Video Poems (Fictions on The language I dream in) - Use the audiovisual medium to its full artistic potential. Share with us your most original and creative ideas about language.

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Prizes
18 winners will be selected to attend an all-expenses-paid 2-week "Cine-Boat" itinerant filmmaking workshop in June 2011 in Turku and the Åland Islands (Finland), during which they will travel by boat around the beautiful archipelago, visiting the island communities and shooting films about the local forms of multilingualism. The region is home to many Swedish Finns, who have their own distinct cultural identity.

The filmmakers will then present their work during a POLYGLOT film festival, as the city of Turku celebrates its status as European Capital of Culture. All short films of the project will later be diffused through a DVD compilation and follow-up screenings across Europe.

Eligibility
Contestants must be resident in a European country (EU or non-EU) and aged 18-35. Works of maximum 5 minutes length, produced since 1st January 2008 are eligible.